Physics – Atomic Physics
Scientific paper
2011-11-30
Physics
Atomic Physics
18 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
We study the exchange and correlation hole of the valence shell of second row atoms using variational Monte Carlo techniques, especially correlated estimates, and norm-conserving pseudopotentials. The well-known scaling of the valence shell provides a tool to probe the behavior of exchange and correlation as a functional of the density and thus test models of density functional theory. The exchange hole shows an interesting competition between two scaling forms -- one caused by self-interaction and another that is approximately invariant under particle number, related to the known invariance of exchange under uniform scaling to high density and constant particle number. The correlation hole shows a scaling trend that is marked by the finite size of the atom relative to the radius of the hole. Both trends are well captured in the main by the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof generalized-gradient approximation model for the exchange-correlation hole and energy.
Cancio Antonio C.
Fong Yew C.
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